Geoffrey Wheatcroft

Education

He was educated at University College School, London, and at, Oxford, where he read Modern History.

Career

He started work in publishing in 1968, working for Hamish Hamilton (1968-1970), Michael Joseph (1971-1973), and Cassell & Company (1974-1975). In 1975 he became the assistant editor of The Spectator, moving to the post of literary editor, which he occupied from 1977 to 1981. During the period 1981-1984, he worked as a reporter in South Africa before becoming editor of the Londoner"s Diary gossip column in the London Evening Standard, 1985-1986.

He was a Sunday Telegraph columnist 1987-1991, freelance 1993-1996.

Feature writer on the Daily Express, 1996-1997. And has since written for The Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement, The New York Review of, The New Republic, the Boston Globe, the Atlantic, The American Conservative, and other publications on both sides of the Atlantic.

Achievements

• His book The Controversy of Zion won a National Jewish Book Award.

Works

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  • The Strange Death of Tory England

    (Has the most successful species in British political hist...)

  • The Randlords: The Men Who Made South Africa

    (The story of the birth of modern South Africa and the men...)

  • The Randlords (A Touchstone book)

    (The story of the birth of modern South Africa and the men...)

  • The Randlords: The Men Who Made South Africa by Geoffrey Wheatcroft (1986-09-04)
  • The Randlords: The Exploits & Exploitations of South Africa's Mining Magnates
  • The Controversy of Zion: Jewish Nationalism, the Jewish State, and the Unresolved Jewish Dilemma
  • The Randlords: The Exploits & Exploitations of South Africa's Mining Magnates by Geoffrey Wheatcroft (1986-03-01)
  • The Controversy of Zion: How Zionism Tried to Resolve the Jewish Question
  • Strange Death Of Tory England by Geoffrey Wheatcroft (2005-09-27)
  • The Randlords (A Touchstone book) by Geoffrey Wheatcroft (1987-06-01)